Nina Genke-Meller

The following year she began teaching history, geography and drawing at the Higher Primary College for Women in Skoptsi [uk].

[4] Nina Genke was closely connected with the Supremus group that was led by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of Suprematism.

[5] From 1915 Genke worked as a head and a chief artist of the Verbovka Village Folk Centre (province in Kyiv).

Annenskiy) for Kamerny Theater in Moscow, was teaching drawing at Kruger's Private Gymnasium, was working jointly on a large panel with artist Katria Vasilieva, as a member of the Kyiv Folk Centre, was one of the heads of the Kyiv Committee of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union: together with the group of artists-suprematists was creating a network of artistic and industrial studios aiming at support of folk art in Ternopil, Kolomiya, Chortkiv and Chernivtsi regions.

[8] Genke was a chief artist of the Golfstream futuristic publishing house led by Ukrainian poet-Futurist, Mykhail Semenko.

Suprematist Composition, 1915